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Fashion Unraveled Colloquium: Dr. Ellen Sampson “Affect and Embodiment: Why Worn Things Matter”
No full textInspired by the MFIT exhibition Fashion Unraveled and organized by MFIT and the Fashion Research Network, this one-day colloquium explored the concepts of memory, wear, and imperfection in fashion. Speakers focused on imperfect garments and the significance of dressing as a habitual, intimate, and ephemeral act.Ellen Sampson is an artist, curator, and writer whose work explores the relationships between bodily experience, memory, and clothing. Using film, installation, and sculpture, she addresses the manner in which material objects can become records of lived experience and how the traces of these experiences can be read or understood by the viewer. In exploring the resonance of worn and used artifacts, Sampson seeks to uncover how attachment to material artifacts is produced and maintained. Fascinated by the magical shoes in fairy tales as a child, Sampson completed a degree in anthropology before training as a shoemaker, learning to make shoes at the famous Cordwainers College in London. For several years, she ran her own company and worked in fashion, then her work developed a more conceptual angle and she returned to Cordwainers to undertake an MA. Her acclaimed Masters project, Absences, explored empty footwear as a symbol of absence, loss, and grief. Sampson recently completed a PhD exploring our attachment to footwear at Royal College of Art, London
Pink Symposium: Tanya Melendez-Escalante “Mexican Rose”
No full textThe Museum at FIT presented Pink, its twentieth academic symposium. This symposium explored the significance of the color pink in fashion, art, and culture. Pink provokes exceptionally strong feelings of both attraction and repulsion, yet it is increasingly being regarded as cool and androgynous, powerful and political. Topics included the significance of pink clothing in western and non-western cultures (including India, Africa, Mexico, and Japan), the role of pink in eighteenth-century portraiture, associations of pink with politics, gender, and sexuality, and the use of pink in cinema.Tanya Melendez-Escalante is senior curator of education and public programs of MFIT. She has organized more than 90 programs for a diversity of audiences. A Fulbright scholar from 2002 to 2004, she is a contributing author to the books La comedia y el melodrama en el audiovisual iberoamericano contemporáneo and Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color
Faces and Places in Fashion: Steven Stipelman
No full textPart presentation, part Q&A, FIT's "Faces & Places in Fashion" lecture series is an opportunity to connect students and the public alike to the pulse of the fashion industry in an open and conversational setting.Our first remote class featured Steven Stipelman, professor of Fashion design/art at FIT since 1993. Professionally, his career goes back more than 40 years. His first job was staff illustrator at Henri Bendel, one of the most fashion forward stores of the period. He drew all the newspaper and promotional ads. His next job, and perhaps the one he is most associated with was an illustrator for Women's wear Daily and "W" for more than 25 years. He illustrated major American and European collections - designer to couture. He worked with these designers often sketching the garments before they were ever made. He learned a great deal of how the collections were created as well as construction and fabrication.Steven's work has been printed internationally and some of his clients included Lord & Taylor, Marshall Field, Estee Lauder, Orlane, Yves St Laurent cosmetics, Bill Blass, Pierre Cardin, Christian Dior, Valentino, Tuleh, Blassport, Basile and Ralph Rucci. His work has appeared in many shows and exhibitions throughout the country. In 2007, he had a one-person exhibition, "Ethereal Elegance," at the Museum at FIT. He is the author of a textbook, "Illustrating Fashion - Concept to Creation." He would describe his work as giving an impression of movement through a spontaneity of brush strokes and washes of acrylic or watercolor. He wants his figures to always have an ethereal or swan-like look, as if they were floating across the page. The drawing should project an emotion that would make you want to feel that way rather than look that way
Faces and Places in Fashion: Fashion Service Network
No full textPart presentation, part Q&A, FIT's "Faces & Places in Fashion" lecture series is an opportunity to connect students and the public alike to the pulse of the fashion industry in an open and conversational setting.Michael Stanley moderates a panel of representatives from the Fashion Service Network: Stuart Kagel COO of 24 Seven Inc.; Andrew Jassin, founder of Jassin-O'Rourke Group, LLP; Tom Nastos of Endurance, LLC. After introducing themselves and describing their backgrounds, the panelists discuss how Fashion Service Network assists fashion companies seeking to expand, strengthen, and energize their business with design, commercialization, distribution, merchandising of fashion goods.Introduced by Alice Papazian
Faces and Places in Fashion: Eva Lorenzotti, founder/CEO Vivre, Inc.
No full textPart presentation, part Q&A, FIT's "Faces & Places in Fashion" lecture series is an opportunity to connect students and the public alike to the pulse of the fashion industry in an open and conversational setting.Ms. Lorenzotti describes her career in the luxury direct marketing catalog industry, emphasizing how her persistence in pursuing contacts and merchandisers paid off. She explains how her publication Vivre is part of the "magalog" phenomenon.Introduced by Alice Papazian
100 Years of Fashion: Part Two
No full textThe Museum at FIT is excited to present 100 Years of Fashion, a two-part introduction to the history of fashion from the late 19th century through the 1990s. These two videos were originally created for high school students enrolled in FIT's Summer Live, a specialized Precollege course, because the in-person program had to move online due to Covid-19. The museum is now making these educational videos that survey a century of fashion available publicly
Bergdorf Goodman Oral History Series: Andrew Goodman
No full textThis interview by Robert Riley of Andrew Goodman, son of the founder of Bergdorf Goodman, took place on December 13th, 1977. The discussion starts out and keeps a consistent theme of development of departments within Bergdorf’s as well as the evolution of the store from 1900. Goodman spoke of the ‘family affair’ at the office after Goodman bought out Voight and partnered with Bergdorf in 1901. Goodman spoke of his early life, dropping out college and moving to Paris to work for Patou before New York. There is an emphasis in the interview on Adolfo and Halston. There are a few mentions of FIT including trustee Jerry Silverman and other fashion employee Shannon Rogers, who were the first to bring European luxury fashion to America. Departments like fur and the custom salon are discussed, as well as Miss Bergdorf’s in the 30s and the union system. A portion of the conversation discusses luxury customers and tactics when dealing with high profile and high maintenance clientele. The conversation is cut short when discussing Goodman’s belief in young talent in the retail industry and the importance of incoming college graduates in the industry.Andrew Goodman was interviewed by Bob Reilly in the executive offices of Bergdorf Goodman.Andrew Goodman passed away in 1993
Fragrance Foundation Oral History Series: Annette Green
No full textThis interview discusses Annette Green's contributions to The Fragrance Foundation. It begins with a discussion on the history of the company, Green's initial introduction and eventual rehabilitation of the foundation, and it's current position in the industry. Green discusses her involvement with starting the Cosmetic and Fragrance Program at FIT.Annette Green was raised by her mother. She was an only child and lived with her mother in her grandparents house. Green attended NYU and the New School, where she studied Journalism. Her first professional job was at American Druggist, a Hearst publication. She worked as an assistant for George Bender and had her own column marketed to teenage girls. In the mid 1950s, Hearst publications paid for her tuition at a night school where she continued to study journalism. She moved from American Druggist to the DuBarry Success School news letter, where she was the editor of the publication. However, she was unhappy here because of a fraught relationship with her boss. She moved into a position in sales training, working under Chris Chiossi, a woman Green admired. Green wrote speeches for Chiossi. Mcfadden magazine offered Green a position as beauty editor, which Green accepted. She worked there for about a year. She then got a call from an acquaintance telling her that the recommended her for a job as Assistant Women's Page Editor at Scripps Howard. She took the position but was later scouted by Jack Mohr, president of Lenthéric. Mohr wanted Green to be the Publicity Director of the company. Even though she knew nothing about the job, Green accepted. When Lenthéric merged with Olin Mathieson, Mohr left and Green moved into the cooperate department. Soon, Green left too and started her own company, Annette Green Associates, in 1960. Her first major account was Altman, Stroller; Green handled their fashion accounts. A year later, Mohr asked Green to help save the Fragrance Foundation. The Fragrance Foundation was founded in 1949 by the fragrance departments of Chanel, Caron, Guerlain, Coty, and Helena Rubinstein. It was originally conceived as a way to promote the everyday usage of perfume in the United States. By 1961, the foundation was failing, with very few members left. Mohr wanted Green to revive the foundation. She slowly but successfully acquired members, old and new, such as Edouard Cournand of Lanvin and Gregory Thomas of Chanel. Green also wrote a directory of all the fragrance businesses in the industry. Thanks to Green, the Fragrance Foundation really became established. She continued working with the foundation throughout the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Under Green's supervision, the Olfactory Research Fund was created to support the work of clinical psychologists. Green was president of the foundation from 1963 to 2003. In addition to her work for the foundation, Green wanted to create a program that would teach cosmetics and fragrance practices. She reached out to Shirley Goodman at FIT, who in turn, invited Green to teach a class on the subject one day a week. Dean Jack Rittenberg suggested the creation of an entire program. Hazel Bishop became the head of the program. Green started the Cosmetic/Fragrance ACTION council at FIT, which was made up of professionals to oversee the curriculum. In the mid 1990s, Green published a book, along with fashion journalist Linda Dyett, on jewelry that held fragrance
Project of the Fashion Industries Oral History Series: Liz Claiborne
No full textLiz Claiborne was born Anne Elisabeth Jane Claiborne in Brussels, Belgium, on March 31, 1929. She worked in the New York City fashion industry for 25 years before launching her own company in 1976. In 1986, Liz Claiborne, Inc. became the first company founded by a woman to make the Fortune 500 list. She was also the first female CEO of a Fortune 500 company
World Affairs Lecture Muslim Identity in Peril: Commemorating the Bosnian Genocide
No full textKenan Trebincevic, author of The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return, will discuss the war in Bosnia and Muslim identity with Associate Professor of Social Sciences Emre Özsös.The Department of Social Sciences’ World Affairs Lecture Series fulfills FIT’s mission to foster an understanding of diverse cultures and politics within the international as well as domestic perspectives. It also embraces, supports, and expands upon the president’s campus-wide initiative on civility.This lecture is presented in partnership with the Presidential Scholars program